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If you bought a consumer Lenovo laptop in the past six to eight months, you may have ended up with an unwelcome addition. Here’s how to kill the Superfish malware — and prevent it from hijacking your browser sessions or exposing your private data.

Lenovo’s consumer laptops are loaded with adware that fundamentally compromises system security and transmits encrypted information to a third-party vendor. Lenovo’s response thus far is to pretend the problem doesn’t exist and that consumers knowingly chose to buy hardware with non-functioning browser safeguards.

Lenovo announced a new Atom-based smartphone that uses Intel’s 64-bit Moorefield tablet processor and packs an enormous 4,000 mAH battery. The device is aimed primarily at business users, and the company is claiming a two-day talk time.

The first reviews of the Lenovo Core M-powered Yoga 3 Pro have hit the market, but they’re anything but encouraging. It’s not clear that the problem is actually with Intel’s chip, but the end result is disappointing.

Motorola has unveiled its second-gen flagship phone: the Moto X. It keeps the same name as last year’s offering, and also the same kind of factory-level customization as its predecessor, but everything else is much better. The new Moto X has much better, flagship-level internals, a glorious Super AMOLED 1080p display, and the chassis now has a metal edge. The Moto Maker customization tool remains, but the second-gen Moto X now has the option of having a real leather back — and according to early hands-on impressions, it feels fantastic. In short, the new Moto X is now a bona fide flagship phone that actually stands a chance of competing against the likes of the HTC One M8 and the upcoming iPhone 6.

At an event in London, Motorola has unveiled the Moto E. It isn’t the best smartphone, or the fastest, or even the lightest — but it probably is the best, fastest, and lightest phone that you can buy for its fantastically low, off-contract-SIM-free-no-subsidy price of just $130. At that price point, Motorola believes it has finally created a smartphone that is cheap enough to deliver a killing blow to the feature phone, which still commands 60% of the US’s mobile phone market (70% globally). Motorola, which competes with other small-time phone vendors like LG and HTC for Samsung’s Android scraps, could really do with a runaway hit device right about now.

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